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0 (0.0%)- "I'm not going to put my lot in with economists," Clinton said in an exclusive appearance on a special edition of "This Week" from Indianapolis.
In light of fierce criticism from economic experts, Clinton said, "We've been, for the last seven years, seeing a tremendous amount of government power and elite opinion basically behind policies that haven't worked well for the middle class and hard-working Americans. ... I know if we get it right, if we actually did it right, if we had a president who used all the tools of the presidency, we would design it in such a way that it would be implemented effectively."
This annoys me a lot. It's a typical political smear. Economists have been saying for a very long time that reconing is coming. It's partly because economists are do darn funny. For example: Unsustainable conditions eventually end. That's hilarious. What Hillary's doing here is equating economists with "government power and elite opinion". To my knowledge, there's no connection. Bush doesn't care what economists say. "Elite opinion" is not the opinion of economists. But it's a smear that will sell, just like her foolish gas tax plan is populist pap that won't help. We need a sensible person in charge. Smearing economists--who are essentially scientists--is quite similar to the sort of smears Bush enjoys. You won't "put your lot in" with economists? Do you know who else loves that angle? Zimbabwe's Mugabe, Cuba's Castro, and Venezuela's Chavez. It's not that these people have bad intentions. It's that they think economists are selling flim-flam. They need only apply their iron fist of decree to complicated problems. But you know what they say about unsustainable conditions...
I am a Democrat. I will spend more money and I will oppose Democrats who stand in the way of HR5924. Don't squander our party's leadership position by holding our national interests hostage.
The harder you have to work to get the right answer, the more the answer is sealed in memory. Precisely those things that seem to signal we're learning well — easy performance on drills, fluency during a lesson, even the subjective feeling that we know something — are misleading when it comes to predicting whether we will remember it in the future. Sense of achievement is exactly what we should most distrust. The best time to study something is at the moment you are about to forget it.
How to become a genius: Clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.
Heroin, crack, buds, and booze.
Flowers trigger Duchenne Smiles.
More evidence for Peak Mall theory. We need alternative shopping models and we need them NOW!
60% of Americans rent or have no mortgage at all. How do you think they feel about bailing out mortgage holders?
"China's demand itself would be enough to start an upward trend line in oil, wheat, copper, coal, fertilizer, and other commodities, but with globalization, we have the whole world implementing capitalism. The initial growing pains are obvious enough. We have had large price increases, with selected shortages of some commodities, such as rice."
Conclusion: You need a vegetable garden.
The torch doesn't just represent unity among nations through sport. It also represents huge profits for the host nation. China jails environmentalists and bloggers. It's obviously politically dumb to parade this torch through hostile crowds by surrounding it by rollerblading cops in jumpsuits. Hosting Olympics doesn't make you legitimate. Respecting human rights and sovereignty does.
Starbucks will personalize its gift cards, within reason, of course: No to laissez-faire, yes to People Not Profits. BEND THAT REALITY, CORPORATISM!
I skipped the painting elephant.
I was in early, but I knew everyone would post it.
But how can I not post this?
What does it mean?
Mike, you don't mean anything.
You represent nothing.
You are not a counterculture icon of politics.
You're just crazy as all hell.
- Circumstantial evidence suggests the attack was the work of members of Anonymous, an informal collective of griefers best known for their recent war on the Church of Scientology.
throughout history, there is one con:
- If Citi KNOWS the rate is going lower, but says “it is most likely to go higher” and doesn’t give a straight answer, and is stupid enough to have third party witnesses listen to the misrepresentations and/or put them in writing and or have them recorded (and I assume Citi records a lot of stuff by law or company policy), then they deserve to be sued by a lot people.
throughout history, there is one chump:
- the default rate of Prosper loans is in the neighborhood of 20% per year.
i think it's funny that Charlie Munger (sidekick to the nation's top investor) wrote a book called The Psychology of Human Misjudgment. I think the internet has Munger Fever.
Jimmy Carter and Adbusters.
Lastly, compared with bonobos, chimpanzees are more patient, waiting longer to get their hands on a delayed treat.
( Which group are you in? )
Having seen how cynical, hostile, and indifferent he is, do you still think a boycott is a dumb idea? Hint: He calls it blackmail. And he calls you his audience. Don't you kinda want the audience to keep quiet? JUST CONSUME THE ADVERTISER LINKS, OK?
Consumer confidence at 16-year low.
Gold/dollar ratio goes parabolic.
WATCH OLD STAR TREK ONLINE.
Get through airport security faster by leaving ID at home.
Third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone.
